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Misfortune
COMES It SIXES

EVER have
one of those
annoying
runs of bad
luck?

You know,
where rotten
things keep hap-
pening to you,
despite the fact that you don’t necessarily deserve
it?

Well, Pm coming off one of those runs, and 1
don’t care what everybody says, bad things don’t
always happen in threes.

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In fact, for me, bad things happen in sixes.
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My most recent spell of bad luck seems to be
centred around bad driving (mine mostly).

It started with a team competition at Surrey
Municipal Golf Club last Tuesday. I play on a
golf team and we had a routine match against the
Surrey team. These competitions are normally a
lot of fun, except when you're losing to an oppo-
nent who's three times your age and half your
size, :

Anyway, I couldn’t drive the ball worth beans
all day, and the end result was thar my partner
and IJ lost our match. Instead of sticking around
for the post-match beer, we decided to high tail
it home and beat the traffic. (Okay, so part of
the reason we skipped the beer was the humilia-
tion factor.)

Apparently T couldn't drive the car worth
beans at all that day either, because, just minutes
away from the golf course on a short-cut route I
stopped at what I assumed was at a four-way
stop. 1 was involved in two conversations as |
proceeded gaily into the intersection, where we
were promptly schmucked by a car coming from
the right.

Both cars were nearly tozalled.

You see, what I foolishly assumed was a four-
way stop was, in fact, a two-way stop.

The firemen, police, and ambulance all :
showed up to help clean up the mess and make
sure we were okay. Thankfully no one was seri-
ously hurt, but my passenger and golf partner,
Bette, got a good bang on her head and we were
really shaken up. Add to that the humiliation of
having to stand at the corner of 96A and 168th
Avenues in Surrey in our fess-than-stunning golf
uniforms with our golf bags and sun visors stilt
on waiting for a lift home and Vil tell you what.

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